Posts by Brad Gill
Lanier Lake Record Shellcracker
Russ Toole holds the current Lake Lanier shellcracker record with a 1-lb., 5-oz. fish he caught on June 13, 2002.
Read MoreCooper Creek And Rock Creek Trout
There’s good news if you like the taste of fried trout and hush puppies. You can fill your plate and don’t need a $200 set of neoprene waders and a box of fancy fly-fishing equipment to do it. In fact, it doesn’t take much more than the price of a fishing license and a trout…
Read MoreHenned Up Gobblers With Benny Briggs
I could probably be well on my way to a sizable retirement account right now if I had just one dime for every time an old gobbler flew off the roost, gobbled a few times at my yelping and cutting, headed straight for a flock of real-life hens and left my camouflaged tail sitting in…
Read MoreFishing Brooks Lake In Rockdale County
Sometimes it’s hard to see the forest for the trees. With all the praise and positive publicity that’s been given to Rockdale County’s 650-acre Black Shoals reservoir, many anglers have overlooked the better-than-average chance to get your arm broke just a few miles west at Brooks Lake. It’s public, it’s cheap, it’s very accessible, and…
Read MoreWest Point Springtime Crappie
It really was like playing musical chairs as a kid. There were three of us that kept circling the floor of a white, 23-foot Carolina Skiff. Each of us was eyeing the other, wondering which lucky angler would be positioned just right when the music stopped, or as was the case, which one would be…
Read MoreThe 2002 Georgia Turkey Special
When that first break of orange appears on the horizon early on the morning of March 23, I’ll be standing in a riverbottom somewhere, covered from head to toe in camouflage, with a Remington in one hand and a wooden barred owl call in the other. I’ll be on full alert — waiting for my…
Read MoreA Realtree Dream Turkey Hunting Trip To Remember
For the third consecutive year GON has given away a Realtree turkey-hunting dream trip to a kid in an effort to encourage more youth involvement in hunting and other outdoor activities. Realtree has been gracious enough to host these dream hunts and put our winning kids on some of the finest turkey-hunting land in the…
Read MoreClarks Hill Lake Record Warmouth
Daniel Rawlins, 16, of Appling, was hoping for a Clarks Hill slab crappie when he was fishing on April 15, 2001. Instead, he ended up landing this 13-oz. warmouth that nailed his minnow. The new lake-record fish fills a previously empty category. Clarks Hill Lake, is a reservoir at the border between Georgia and South Carolina in the…
Read MoreSinclair Lake Record Hybrid Bass
David Phillips, of Milledgeville, caught this 10-lb., 7-oz. lake-record hybrid on Lake Sinclair on Nov. 27, 1998.
Read MoreDoomed 10-Pointer Set Free
Kevin Black, of Duluth, was on his way from Thomaston back to his Upson County hunting club on the afternoon of Saturday, Oct. 3, when he looked out his truck window and saw a strange and alarming sight. Standing beneath a massive water oak not far off the road were two bucks, their antlers jammed…
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